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Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

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There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

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Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium

01/11/2004

8 pages long

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This paper reviews the lessons of democratic decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh (MP), a poor and semi-feudal Indian state that emerged as a leader and bold experimenter in institutional design in the 1990s. Despite inauspicious beginnings, political leadership in MP set out to use decentralisation as a lever to expand and improve basic service delivery. The […]

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Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

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HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

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Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

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Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

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African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

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This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

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Meeting the challenges to scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

01/04/2007

12 pages long

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AIDS-related morbidity and mortality not only affects individuals and their families, but is rapidly undermining African states’ capacity to develop. Stemming the impacts of the pandemic has therefore become a major concern. This calls for meeting the needs for care and support of those affected, and increasing the access of persons living with HIV/AIDS to […]

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Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

01/08/2007

6 pages long

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Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

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This article reflects on the vocabulary commonly used within development organisations to communicate about ‘gender and development’. It argues that the relevant terminology, though frequently used, remains problematic. Some terms are almost entirely absent, while others are used loosely and inappropriately – with the subtleties of carefully developed and much-debated concepts often lost. Terms such […]

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Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: equality and justice as well as results

01/06/2008

3 pages long

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Though less than expected, resources are available for simple, cheap interventions that can accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Results-based management has been the key to increasing access to education and health care, but it does little to change the political, social, and economic conditions that make people poor. Unless there is a better […]

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Strategies for out-scaling participatory research approaches for sustaining agricultural research impacts

01/08/2008

11 pages long

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The popularity of participatory research approaches is largely driven by the expected benefits from bridging the gap between formal agricultural science institutions and local farm communities, making agricultural research more relevant and effective. There is, however, no certainty that this approach, which has been mainly project-based, will succeed in transforming agricultural research in developing countries […]

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Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan

01/05/2009

10 pages long

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Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan

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This article examines the impact of NGO professionalisation on the recruitment of NGO staff. Based on an in-depth survey of employees in 20 advocacy NGOs in Jordan, it demonstrates the gendered impact of professionalisation. The majority of NGO employees are highly educated women, often Western-educated, who work in NGOs primarily for career opportunities and because […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

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Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium

01/11/2004

8 pages long

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Keywords

Overview

This paper reviews the lessons of democratic decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh (MP), a poor and semi-feudal Indian state that emerged as a leader and bold experimenter in institutional design in the 1990s. Despite inauspicious beginnings, political leadership in MP set out to use decentralisation as a lever to expand and improve basic service delivery. The […]

Journal article

Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

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Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

Journal article

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Journal article

Meeting the challenges to scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-related morbidity and mortality not only affects individuals and their families, but is rapidly undermining African states’ capacity to develop. Stemming the impacts of the pandemic has therefore become a major concern. This calls for meeting the needs for care and support of those affected, and increasing the access of persons living with HIV/AIDS to […]

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Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

01/08/2007

6 pages long

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Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

Keywords

Overview

This article reflects on the vocabulary commonly used within development organisations to communicate about ‘gender and development’. It argues that the relevant terminology, though frequently used, remains problematic. Some terms are almost entirely absent, while others are used loosely and inappropriately – with the subtleties of carefully developed and much-debated concepts often lost. Terms such […]

Journal article

Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: equality and justice as well as results

01/06/2008

3 pages long

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Keywords

Overview

Though less than expected, resources are available for simple, cheap interventions that can accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Results-based management has been the key to increasing access to education and health care, but it does little to change the political, social, and economic conditions that make people poor. Unless there is a better […]

Journal article

Strategies for out-scaling participatory research approaches for sustaining agricultural research impacts

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The popularity of participatory research approaches is largely driven by the expected benefits from bridging the gap between formal agricultural science institutions and local farm communities, making agricultural research more relevant and effective. There is, however, no certainty that this approach, which has been mainly project-based, will succeed in transforming agricultural research in developing countries […]

Journal article

Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan

01/05/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the impact of NGO professionalisation on the recruitment of NGO staff. Based on an in-depth survey of employees in 20 advocacy NGOs in Jordan, it demonstrates the gendered impact of professionalisation. The majority of NGO employees are highly educated women, often Western-educated, who work in NGOs primarily for career opportunities and because […]

Showing 436 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

Bridging gaps: collaboration between research and operational organisations

01/08/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There are large potential synergies from collaboration between a research and an operational organisation, such as an NGO, but explicit collaborations between them are not common. This Practical Note examines the institutional partnership between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CARE-USA, as a concrete illustration of the difficulties and potential benefits of such […]

Journal article

Democratic decentralisation and poverty reduction in Madhya Pradesh: searching for an institutional equilibrium

01/11/2004

8 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reviews the lessons of democratic decentralisation in Madhya Pradesh (MP), a poor and semi-feudal Indian state that emerged as a leader and bold experimenter in institutional design in the 1990s. Despite inauspicious beginnings, political leadership in MP set out to use decentralisation as a lever to expand and improve basic service delivery. The […]

Journal article

Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

01/04/2005

14 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

HIV/AIDS is having profound impacts on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. These include the deaths of working-age adults, the diversion of resources to caring, and the rupture of traditional chains of knowledge transmission. NGOs are responding by providing assistance to communities affected by the epidemic in the fields of agriculture, skills training, and microfinance, as well […]

Journal article

Women, workers, and migrants in the globalised public health sector: debate at the 2004 International Labour Conference

01/08/2005

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Total remittances from migrant workers (US$80bn in 2003) significantly outstrip the total amount of overseas development assistance (US$55bn in the same year). Many conclude that such remittances make a positive contribution to development in the global South. However, the experiences of women health-care workers and migrants contradict easy and hopeful assumptions about the positive effects […]

Journal article

African scholars and African Studies

01/11/2006

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This article focuses on the development of African Studies, principally in post-1945 Europe and North America, and its counterpart in post-independence Africa. African Studies enjoys an increasingly close connection with bilateral and multilateral development co-operation, providing research and researchers (along with their own conceptual frameworks and concerns) to assist in defining and providing direction for […]

Journal article

Meeting the challenges to scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

01/04/2007

12 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

AIDS-related morbidity and mortality not only affects individuals and their families, but is rapidly undermining African states’ capacity to develop. Stemming the impacts of the pandemic has therefore become a major concern. This calls for meeting the needs for care and support of those affected, and increasing the access of persons living with HIV/AIDS to […]

Journal article

Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

01/08/2007

6 pages long

Free access through journal website

Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations

Keywords

Overview

This article reflects on the vocabulary commonly used within development organisations to communicate about ‘gender and development’. It argues that the relevant terminology, though frequently used, remains problematic. Some terms are almost entirely absent, while others are used loosely and inappropriately – with the subtleties of carefully developed and much-debated concepts often lost. Terms such […]

Journal article

Reaching the Millennium Development Goals: equality and justice as well as results

01/06/2008

3 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

Though less than expected, resources are available for simple, cheap interventions that can accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Results-based management has been the key to increasing access to education and health care, but it does little to change the political, social, and economic conditions that make people poor. Unless there is a better […]

Journal article

Strategies for out-scaling participatory research approaches for sustaining agricultural research impacts

01/08/2008

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

The popularity of participatory research approaches is largely driven by the expected benefits from bridging the gap between formal agricultural science institutions and local farm communities, making agricultural research more relevant and effective. There is, however, no certainty that this approach, which has been mainly project-based, will succeed in transforming agricultural research in developing countries […]

Journal article

Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan

01/05/2009

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

Women and NGO professionalisation: a case study of Jordan

Keywords

Overview

This article examines the impact of NGO professionalisation on the recruitment of NGO staff. Based on an in-depth survey of employees in 20 advocacy NGOs in Jordan, it demonstrates the gendered impact of professionalisation. The majority of NGO employees are highly educated women, often Western-educated, who work in NGOs primarily for career opportunities and because […]